2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Netherlands Nationals

[e][h]2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Netherlands Nationals

League Information

Series:

World Championship Series

Organizer(s):

Electronic Sports League
Blizzard Entertainment

Game Version:

Wings of Liberty
Patch 1.4.3

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Cologne

Format:

1v1
Double-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$2,000 USD

Date:

2012-05-13

Liquipedia Tier:

Minor

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

8

4

2

2

Maps

WCS Cloud Kingdom LE • WCS Daybreak LE • WCS Ohana LE • WCS Antiga Shipyard • WCS Entombed Valley • WCS Shakuras Plateau • WCS Tal'Darim Altar LE

The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Netherlands Nationals is a StarCraft II tournament hosted by Blizzard for 8 players from the Netherlands. It is held in Cologne, Germany on May 13, 2012, and features a prize pool of $2,000. The top 2 players receive paid trips to the 2012 WCS Europe Finals.

Format

• Double-elimination
• All rounds best-of-three.
• In the Grand Finals, the player coming from the Lower Bracket has to win two best-of-three series.

Map Pool

Cloud Kingdom	Daybreak	Ohana	Antiga Shipyard	Entombed Valley	Shakuras Plateau	Tal'Darim Altar

Talents

• Host
  • Soe (Salome Soe Gschwind-Penski)

• Commentators
  • Kaelaris (James Carrol)
  • Templar (Konrad Kleinholz)

Prize Pool

$2,000, and two paid trips to the 2012 WCS Europe Finals is spread among the players as seen below.

Place	$ USD	Seed	Player	Team
1st	$800	Paid Trip	Grubby	Team Grubby
2nd	$500	Paid Trip	Ret	Team Liquid
3rd	$240	-	uThermal	Team Defence
4th	-	-	Harstem	Mouse Control
5th-6th	-	-	RainMan
			PoYo	LowLandLions
7th-8th	-	-	NOLot
			WiseEye

Qualifiers

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League	Date	Qualified Player #1	Qualified Player #2
ESL Qualifier #1	2012-04-24	Grubby	PoYo
ESL Qualifier #2	2012-04-26	Ret	RainMan
ESL Qualifier #3	2012-04-29	Harstem	uThermal
ESL Qualifier #4	2012-05-02	WiseEye	NOLot

Participants

Protoss (4)	Terran (2)	Zerg (2)
Grubby	PoYo	Ret
Harstem	WiseEye	RainMan
uThermal
NOLot

Results

Upper Bracket Quarter-Finals

Upper Bracket Quarter-Finals

Upper Quarter-Finals

UB Quarter-Finals

UB QF

Upper Bracket Semi-Finals

Upper Bracket Semi-Finals

Upper Semi-Finals

UB Semi-Finals

UB SF

Upper Bracket Final

Upper Bracket Final

Upper Final

UB Final

Grand Final

Grand Final

GF

Grubby

2

NOLot

0

Harstem

0

Ret

2

Grubby

2

Ret

1

RainMan

0

uThermal

2

WiseEye

0

PoYo

2

uThermal

2

PoYo

1

Grubby

2

uThermal

0

Grubby

uThermal

uThermal switched from Protoss to Terran during the tournament.

Lower Round 1

Lower Round 1

LB Round 1

LB R1

Lower Bracket Quarter-Finals

Lower Bracket Quarter-Finals

Lower Quarter-Finals

LB Quarter-Finals

LB QF

Lower Bracket Semi-Finals

Lower Bracket Semi-Finals

Lower Semi-Finals

LB Semi-Finals

LB SF

Lower Bracket Final

Lower Bracket Final

Lower Final

LB Final

Harstem

2

NOLot

1

PoYo

1

Harstem

2

WiseEye

0

RainMan

2

Ret

2

RainMan

0

Harstem

0

Ret

2

uThermal

1

Ret

2

uThermal

Ret

uThermal switched from Protoss to Terran during the tournament.

Grubby

2

Ret

0

Racial Distribution

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg
Round of 8	4 2 2
Round of 6	3 1 2
Round of 4	2 1 1
Round of 3	1 1 1
Grand Finals	1 1
Winner	1

External links

• Official Website
• Official Bracket
• Announcement on TL.net
• Of Turtles and Coincidences – Recap by JOJOsc2